The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 6
As he drew his last breath, he said to those standing around:
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: draw, say, stand around · To what, where: last breath, those · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breath | nmod:poss |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breath | amod |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 those | acl |
| 13 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 standing | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Farmer | Farmer's last breath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Farmer | those | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand around | gerund | around property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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